Pep Guardiola says he’s proud of how his Manchester Metropolis crew performed regardless of being handed one other loss.
The Premier League champions had been handed a 2-0 defeat at Juventus, condemning them to a lowly twenty second within the Champions League standings.
Metropolis dominated a lot of the sport in Turin, however had been hit on the counter for each targets.
Nevertheless, Guardiola has defended his gamers regardless that it has solely been one win in 10 for the Spaniard.
Talking to TNT Sports activities after the sport, he stated: “We performed good, actually, actually good.
“We concede few, some transition occurred however I’m so proud for these gamers.
“They provide all the things and so they tried and now we reside on this interval and hopefully we are able to change outcomes.
“We performed effectively”
Pep Guardiola trusts in his squad regardless of 2-0 loss to Juventus…
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“I do know it’s tough, within the Champions League in Europe. We performed actually good. As we speak we’ve completed rather well, didn’t lose many balls like prior to now, we tried, we arrived within the positions.
“In opposition to Italian groups, defend so deep, so compact. Grasp of those type of conditions. We play who we’re and we missed the end result however the efficiency is there.
“We now have two video games, we’d like one level possibly.
“You go to Turin, Paris, our three video games away had been actually robust. It’s a must to settle for it. We’ll flip round, not neglect that interval, admire extra what we’ve completed prior to now, what we’re going to do sooner or later.”
It appears unlikely that Metropolis will now qualify for the subsequent spherical of the Champions League mechanically.
As an alternative, they should enter via a play-off spherical for ending between ninth and twenty fourth.
Ought to they win, they are going to earn a spot within the Final 16 of the competitors.
However as Guardiola talked about, they are going to possible want at the very least another level from their video games in opposition to Paris Saint-Germain and Membership Brugge.
